On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 04:59:33PM +1300, ryan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I think that a hardware exchange is a great idea, but a problem might be the
> price of sending for the sender, static bags arn't always easy to find, and
> it can be a bit costly to send larger objects, does anyone have any ideas
> about this?

i can imagine that mapping the position of spare hardware willing to be
donated is already a good step forward for this. it could be used some
googlemaps variant or so, then people that is traveling thru places can
hook up at their convenience and needs...

at least that's how i do it, as well Asbesto of the Freaknet medialab
who is building the http://dyne.org/museum with historical hardware we
are getting donated: when we are traveling we can check if along the
path there are some useful things to move...

> And I have a couple of (hopefuly not to stupid questions), I'm putting

not stupid at all i'd say..

> together a bunch of computers out of old parts for an activist community
> centre (in New Zealand) for people to come in and grab if they want one,
> after docking and nesting, I'm wondering if there's a way to permintly alter
> the fstab, and also make the welcome message not start automagicly each time
> it starts up?

this is all in my todo, only problem is that i didn't found much time
for it so far. i had an attempt to do a fstab.static mechanism which you can
also see in the subversion respository history, and the splash screen
and sound to be deactivated with a checkbox... i'll see what i can do,
otherwise feel free to hack the scripts and contribute anything if
you're succesful with it, those would be indeed useful contributions ;)

ciao

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